User blog comment:Holt 5/Convo Box 0.2/@comment-1298206-20101203232903

I thought of a backstory for Abscon at last:

OK, in an alternate timeline, Scring leaves Panthera Longclaws before the events of "Bluestripe, a Name Remembered" and becomes the King of Assassins. He establishes a horde and recruits vermin while they are young so he can train them to be professional killers in his army. Abscon was a captain under Scring, but he ran away for unknown reasons.